Armand Ferdinand Xavier Bouten artwork • watercolour • drawing • for sale Swimmers
Armand Ferdinand Xavier Bouten
Venlo 1893-1965 Amsterdam
1893-1965
Swimmers
watercolour on paper 15.5 x 21.7 cm, signed u.r. and painted in 1920's
This work on paper is for sale.
Price: € 2,500
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The Dutch expressionist Armand Bouten has long remained unknown to the general public. In the 1920s and 1930s, he and his wife, the artist Hanny Korevaar, traveled throughout Europe: France, Eastern Europe, Hungary, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, before returning to Amsterdam in the 1940s. Initially, Bouten's oeuvre shows a colorful optimism, with landscapes and party scenes, but gradually a darker palette and more melancholic themes take over. His social commitment means that he puts people, as victims of industrial society, at the center of his work. In 2008/2009, the Groninger Museum showed the first retrospective of Bouten's work, which meant a renewed acquaintance with an idiosyncratic expressionist.